STRUCK INSIDE OUT

I've been waking up peacefully lately. The first few moments before opening my eyes have been met with a stillness and grace I haven't been accustomed to for...

I was fourteen the first time I got my heart broken. I was laying lifelessly on the couch with mono when I received a large, silky teddy bear from my tall, l...

I woke up today and felt the same as I did yesterday, and the day before that, too. For a sliver of a moment, a fraction of a second, like the sun flashing b...

He tells me he loves me, eyes smiling, patient and quiet. He doesn't say it for reciprocation or to make a grand gesture, he just wants to share what's on hi...

When I saw you the other day I didn't know what to say except that I hope you're happy. It's funny, isn't it? How you can know a person inside and out, the i...

It's funny, at the beginning of this year when I was battling the idea of sudden and vast change, the thought of being alone most of the time, especially sle...

I thought of you this morning with the snow falling slowly, peacefully, quietly. My warm blanket wrapped around me and the glacial air filtering the room. If...

Sometimes I wish I knew what you were doing. My mind traces back to us and I picture you sitting in your apartment and looking around the freshly painted wal...

Where did you go when I left? An apartment that was once a home became vacant, dim and stripped of my memory. Where did you go when you saw the void? Sleeple...

I don't know why I write about love and heartbreak the most. It's not as though every poem I write were about you, or him, or someone I haven't met yet. I wr...

I have these moments where missing you overwhelms me. It comes like heavy rainfall on a clear morning; like cold water hitting bare skin after a warm bath; l...

I had a dream about you again last night. I was floating down a river, my arms outstretched, hair swaying with the ease of the current and my eyes set on the...

As a little girl I'd wander through my backyard as though I were an explorer, peeking under fallen leaves for evidence of miniature life. I'd put on my rainc...

One day it will happen for you. You'll walk into some coffee shop or book store and you'll see him. You'll catch each other's eyes and you'll shy away for a ...

As a little girl I'd look forward to hot summer days spent running through sprinklers, hiding behind trees, laying on freshly cut grass in wet bathing suits w...

(Originally published in 2015) I had been trying for a while at that point to make myself believe that I was sincerely happy. All of the pieces fit together ...

Do you ever think of the power of your small, moment to moment, day after day decisions?

i've met your kind before dark and hollow predictable yet intriguing it always seems authentic when it begins the right words gestures movements and stares r...

I want a lover a lover who not only sees me but knows me the way that flower knows its root the way the moon knows its luminescence the way those birds know ...

The thing about heartbreak is that nothing can prepare you for it. There is no road map to tell you where to start and where you'll end up. There are no dire...